The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 241
And then the master caned Edmund again, explaining that this time it was not for untruthfulness, but for his vexatious argumentative habits.
Who acts: master, shock · What happens: cane, explain, not be · To what, where: Edmund, time
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Kind Little Edmund]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, shock), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 caned | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 caned | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 master | det |
| 4 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 caned | nsubj |
| 5 | caned | cane | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Edmund | Edmund | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 caned | obj |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 caned | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 explaining | punct |
| 9 | explaining | explain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 caned | advcl |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 time | mark |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 time | det |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 explaining | obl |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 untruthfulness | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 untruthfulness | cop |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 untruthfulness | advmod |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 untruthfulness | case |
| 17 | untruthfulness | untruthfulness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 time | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 habits | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 habits | cc |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 habits | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 habits | nmod:poss |
| 22 | vexatious | vexatious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 habits | amod |
| 23 | argumentative | argumentative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 habits | amod |
| 24 | habits | habit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 caned | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 caned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cane | past | the master | Edmund | then; again | for hillside's vexatious argumentative habits | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent edmund=Patient | ||
| 2 | explain speech: assert | gerund | the master not said here | time | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not is | past | shock | this time not said here | for untruthfulness | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Project Gutenberg book 23661 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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